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RefNoEC/1883/07
Previous numbersCert XI, 47
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TitleFlight, Walter: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationUber die Darstellung und die Zusammensetzung des jodsauren Kalks und der Jodsaure. Zeitschriften ges Naturwissenschaften d Nat Vereine fur Sachsen und Thuringen in Halle. 1864 XXIII 250; Ueber die thermoelectrische Spannung verschiedener Mineralien. Liebig's Ann Chem cxxxv 319 Phil Mag (4) xxx, 337; On the composition of a coin of Bactria (copper-nickel alloy) Numismatic Chronicle viii 305. Poggendorff's Annalen cxxxix, 507. The following six papers jointly with N Story-Maskelyne : Numeralogical Notices, Part I Journal Chemical Society IX. I; Part II ibid x. 1049; and Part III ibid XIII. 101. Ueber die Destillationsmethode zur Bestimmung des Kieselsaure (in Meteoriten). Naturforscherversammlung, Weiesbaden, 1873. Ueber die Farbe der Diamanten. Naturforscherversammlung, Weiesbaden, 1873. On the character of the Diamantiferous Rock of South Africa. Quart Jour Geological Society, XXX 406. Report on the Shekels collected in Palestine by the late Mr Tyrwhitt Drake. See Mr John Evans' Letter in The Academy October 1874. Copper and Bronze Implements from Cyprus and Egypt. Proc Soc Antiquaries vi 230 and Report of International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeologists, Stockholm, September, 1874. A Chapter in the History of Meteorites, Geolological Magazine, January to December, 1875. An Examination of the Methods for the Quantitative Separation of Iron Oxide, Alumina and Phosphoric Acid, Jour Chem Soc, May, 1875. On Meteorites found in Greenland, the Arctic Manual of Natural History, &c, 447-467.
The fall of Meteorites in Berkshire in the Seventeenth Century. The Athenaeum, December, 1876. Meteorites and the Origin of Life, Popular Science Review, October, 1877. Examination of two new Amalgams from Konigsberg, AG3Hg and Ag12Hg. Phil Mag Feb, 1880. Meteorites. Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry, Supplement III, Part 2. Contributions to our Knowledge of the History of Alloys and Metal-work, for the most part ancient. Phil Mag, 1882. Report on an Exmination of the Meteorites of Cranbourne, Australia; Rowton, in Shropshire; and Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire. Read before the Royal Society, 1882
For several years took an active part on the Luminous Meteor Committee, British Association
ProposersFrom General Knowledge: John Lubbock; C W Siemens
From Personal Knowledge: John Percy; A W Hofmann; H C Sorby; Robt Etheridge; Joseph Prestwich; Richard Owen; Albert Gunther; John Tyndall; Henry Woodward; William Carruthers; John W Judd; William Thomson; J H Gilbert; W S W Vaux; J Gwyn Jeffreys
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Flight, Walter: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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